Is Dan Marino coming around on the idea of Suck for Luck?

October 24, 2011|By Mike Berardino

Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino has been among the harshest critics of the Suck For Luck campaign.

That, of course, is the one where Miami Dolphins fans privately (and some not so privately) have taken to rooting for the losses to keep mounting so this franchise can draft Stanford All-America quarterback Andrew Luck next April.

But I detected a bit of resignation in Marino’s voice on Monday morning when the topic was raised during his weekly appearance on The Joe Rose Show on WQAM (560-AM).

“That could happen,” Marino told his former Dolphins teammate. “That definitely could happen, and that might not be a bad thing.”

Hmm. Was this Marino softening his stance on the notion that sometimes in modern professional sports you need to get very bad in order to get very good?

Somewhat.

“I’m not going to sit around here and say that’s it a good thing,” Marino said. “What would you tell players? How could you go in the locker room or be a teammate of somebody and think about, ‘Well, let’s lose all our games so we get a chance to get a quarterback that hasn’t even played in the NFL yet’? Now, it looks like he’s going to be a very good player. I think it’s ridiculous but at the same time it could happen.”